Rufus

Name: Rufus
Author: pbatard

Version 4.15Open Sourcex64windows79 Downloads

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Rufus is a Open Source Windows program in the System & Tools category, developed by pbatard. The current version is 4.15; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Features: - Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3 - Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS or MS-DOS - Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS - Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.) - Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones - Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot - Create Windows To Go drives - Create VHD/DD, VHDX and FFU images of an existing drive - Create persistent Linux partitions - Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image - Perform runtime validation of UEFI bootable media - Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.) - Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives - Download official Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs - Download UEFI Shell ISOs - Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported - Small footprint. No installation required. - Portable. Secure Boot compatible.

✨ Features

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📝 Release notes (4.15)

- Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS - Improve the guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option - Improve the ability to cancel during write retries - Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction - Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9] - Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960] - Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934] - Fix first WUE option always being checked by default [#2965] - Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs - Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly enabled - Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation (with thanks to @christian8641) [#2984, #2991]

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